House returns from recess today with the speaker under threat from his own party, led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, if Ukraine bill advances
As the House adjourned last month, speaker Mike Johnson vowed that the chamber would soon “take the necessary steps to address the supplemental funding request”, which includes money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
The Senate passed a $95bn foreign aid package in February, but Johnson indicated that the House would consider an amended proposal when members return to Washington. Johnson told Fox News last Sunday:
We’ve been talking to all the members, especially now over the district work period. When we return after this work period, we’ll be moving a product, but it’s going to, I think, have some important innovations.
I’m not saying I have a red line or a trigger, and I’m not saying I don’t have a red line or trigger. But I’m going to tell you right now: funding Ukraine is probably one of the most egregious things that he can do.
10am ET. Secretary of state Antony Blinken will meet with British foreign secretary David Cameron at the State department.
11:15am. Blinken and Biden will give a news conference.
12.30pm. Joe Biden will speak at Washington’s Union Station about the “care economy”, a reference to care workers and family caregivers.
1.30pm. The White House daily press briefing
4pm. The House rules committee will meet to take up several bills, including a bill extending Section 702 in the FISA reauthorization and a resolution denouncing the Biden administration’s immigration policies.
6pm. Biden and first lady Jill Biden will welcome the Japanese prime minister, Fumio Kishida and his wife, Yuko Kishida, to the White House.
Kamala Harris will meet privately this afternoon in with relatives of Americans taken hostage in Gaza during the Hamas terror attacks on southern Israel on 7 October.